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Rockville, Maryland —> Kigali, Rwanda
In my very first week as a GSK employee, I remember seeing a small blurb in some HR material about this “PULSE” program which sends volunteers around the world to support various partner NGOs. “Sign...
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Getting started
I arrived safely in Kigali Friday night after about 24 hours bouncing between airports and airplanes. I checked into my hotel and promptly began Skyping until the travel-induced exhaustion from the...
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Home in Kigali
More substantial posts to come! In the meantime, I wanted to share photos from around Kigali. I’ve actually surprised myself with how few pictures I have taken in the last month here in Rwanda. Back...
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Whoops!
Phew, it has been longer since my last blog than I realized. I’d like to attribute it all to having found my place in Kigali, and finding people and activities that keep me too busy to blog. And...
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Gisenyi and Lake Kivu
Screeeeeeeech. Rewind way back to the beginning of August. This is when I took my first trip outside the city limits of Kigali. This will be old news to those of you who have seen some photos on...
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HRH and Umuganda
And now you can flip your calendars to the end of August. As we approached September, we also approached the beginning of a new academic year for the students and faculty of the College of Medicine and...
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Frisbee in Kampala
As I mentioned in a previous post or two, I’ve spent some of my free time here in Kigali playing ultimate Frisbee with a group of Rwandans and various ex-pats that gets together once or twice a week....
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A Visitor! (part 1)
Not long after I returned from Kampala, a new arrival showed up in Kigali: my boyfriend Joe. After three months of poor Skype connections it was nice to speak to each other face to face, in complete...
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A Visitor! (part 2)
At the end of our long Nyungwe hike, our legs were begging for mercy. By breakfast the next morning, I wasn’t sure if I could conquer the staircase. With that in mind, for our second day in Nyungwe...
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A Visitor! (part 3)
Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park is home to the world’s largest population of mountain gorillas, with a range spanning into Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Rwandan gorillas were...
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